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...seemed that things were finally about to heat up. Swaim explained that male and female are called to love each other, in spite of our human sinfulness, for the sake of God. However, still no word on how exactly to love said significant other...
...eighth day, the Lord said, “Let there be 501(c)(3) forms and tax deductions and another religious reason for violent polemics.” In an age when the line between God and government has blurred, the federal injection of old-time religion into charity seems to have been a doubtful dogma after all. Over the past week, David Kuo, a former White House staffer, has published a book and traveled the talk show circuit to reveal that the Bush administration has been using “faith-based initiatives” for anything...
...Christian? Are you a Muslim? Or perhaps you’re a Buddhist. Did you willingly decide to believe in a certain God or were you simply brought up that way? If your answer is the latter, your parents are in deep trouble—at least according to the famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins...
...shouldn't stop at those days sacred to Catholics and other Christians. The Greeks, Romans and ancient Northern tribes so revered their gods that they named every day of the week after them (Sunday for the sun god, Monday for the moon god, Tuesday for the Nordic god Tyr, Wednesday for the Germanic god Wodin, Thursday for Thor or (the equivalent of Jupiter), Friday for the German goddess Friga (Venus) and Saturday for the Roman god Saturn. Five of the first six months of the year honored various gods (Janus, Mars, Maia, Juno) and religious rituals (the period of purification...
...That's what happened to the previous bland blandishment of "Merry Christmas." It was no more a declaration of religious belief than saying, "God bless you," when you heard a sneeze. (Remind me: is that still allowed?) Yet in the nagging belief that an invocation of the holiday might upset some people, usually referred to as "our Jewish friends," the phrase morphed into "Happy holiday" or "Happy holidays" - those days presumably being Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's Day. Problem solved, with no offense...